A Billion Years of History Is Missing from the Grand Canyon

well here's a secret you've Shirley

known about the Fantastic Gorge at this point however not

of its most secret mystery let me make sense of

the Terrific Gully resembles a set of experiences book

of the Earth where you can go back

in time by simply checking the Stone out

layers it's what you get when you leave

the water running for a billion years

plus or minus yet here's the secret one

billion years worth of rocks has

disappeared Without a Follow it's known as The

Incredible unconformity and it has confounded

researchers for north of 150 years one group

of geologists from the College of

Colorado might have a clarification for

this case

they believe that stones were washed away

into the sea during the fierce

separation of Earth's antiquated

supercontinent rhodinia around 700

a long time back the disturbance was so

extreme that it caused rocks and

dregs to vanish from the Excellent

Ravine abandoning a huge Hole in

the geographical record that equivalent group of

researchers went on an endeavor to the

Great Ravine and utilized an extravagant strategy

called thermocrinology to study the

warming history of the Stones they found

out that the incredible unconformity might be

considerably more muddled than beforehand

thought

it would seem the eastern and

western parts of the Fabulous Ravine may

have gone through various geographical

changes over the course of time this really intends that

the commotion might have torn at the

eastern and western parts of the Terrific

Gorge in various ways and at somewhat

various times making the incredible

unconformity the group's discoveries are

helping piece together what occurred

during this basic period for the

Amazing Gorge and other North American

destinations that have encountered comparative

times of lost time sure there are

still a few parts of this puzzle that

are as yet missing yet the secret of the

incredible unconformity May at last be addressed

on account of the difficult work of geologists

it's by all accounts not the only idiosyncratic element of the

Fantastic Ravine Nature outperformed

herself with this one assuming you're arranging

to visit the ravine there's a certain something

you totally can't neglect layers

trust me it's like playing the

temperature Lottery down there you may

get going inclination like you're in the

Sahara Desert at the base and end up

shuddering like a penguin at the top the

height in the gully goes from a

almost 2 000 feet up to more than 8 000. that's a lot of climbing considering that the Grand Canyon also has more than

thousand caves a literal underground

Paradise waiting to be explored only 335

of them have been documented and even

fewer have been fully mapped out

explored or inventoried now if you're

looking to get a taste of cave life

without all the spelunking and crawling

around in the dark you can book the

cavern Suite located in the cave of the

domes on horseshoe Mesa this is the only

cave open for visitors to explore

after 6 30 PM when the park closes you

can have the entire cave all to yourself

no other tourists to photobomb your cave

selfies plus you'll get to enjoy two

cozy beds and a 70 foot high vaulted

ceiling it's like your very own

underground Palace living in a cave can

be tough so there's a sweet attendant

station nearby who can bring you food

and anything else you need to make your

cave stay as comfortable as possible

never mind the bats yeah just kidding

Supai Village is one of those hidden

gems tucked away near the Grand Canyon

even most Americans don't know about it

with a population of only 208 people

it's the perfect place to get away from

the hustle and bustle of City Life and

embrace a life of solitude it's so

remote that they receive their mail by

pack mule and get this they don't even

have cars in the community

a type of rock found in the Grand Canyon

is a whopping 1.75 billion years old as

almost half the age of the entire planet

but before you start dozing off from all

this talk of ancient rocks let me tell

you why this is super interesting

studying this rock could give us a

glimpse into what life was like on Earth

way back in the day think of prehistoric

creatures exotic plants and a landscape

that looks like something out of a

sci-fi movie yeah I wasn't there

The Rock and the Grand Canyon is even

older than me or anything found in

Marine or volcanic rock around the world

next time you're hiking through the

Grand Canyon and you come across a

boring old rock remember that it could

hold the key to unlocking the mysteries

of our planet's past

have you ever seen the iconic Horseshoe

Bend of the canyon in the southwest the

way the Colorado River has eroded the

rock over countless eons to create such

a dramatic shape is just incredible it's

important to remember that nothing lasts

forever though as much as we love the

Horseshoe Bend the forces of erosion are

just too powerful to be stopped the

Colorado River will continue to do its

thing eroding the walls of the canyon

and changing the landscape over time so

be sure to book a trip while it's still

available for tourists who knows maybe

one day it'll become a cut off Meander

like the Rincon in Utah and we can look

back at pictures you took and say you

know remember when we saw the Horseshoe

Bend and you guys will be really really

old

if you do get to the Grand Canyon be

sure to also stop by Havasupai Falls it

does take a bit of effort to get there

though the journey may be long but the

reward is Crystal Blue Waters and

totally unexpected breathtaking Falls

it's located near Supai Village I told

you about that earlier the small

isolated Community within the Havasupai

Indian Reservation it's a great

opportunity to connect with locals and

learn about their unique culture now

before you grab your backpack and hiking

boots there are a few things you need to

know the land is administered by the

Havasupai tribe so it's outside of Grand

Canyon National Parks jurisdiction that

means you need to plan and reserve a

spot in the Havasupai Campground if you

want to stay overnight so yes the Grand

Canyon is well named it certainly is

Grand awesome and a bunch of other

adjectives tremendous comes to mind yeah

there's something even bigger out in

space

Mars has its own canyon system that

makes our local Grand Canyon look like a

mere ditch it's called Valles marineris

not to be confused with pasta marinara

and it stretches over 2500 miles that's

almost one-fifth of the red planet

circumference can you even imagine

taking a road trip through that massive

Canyon you could start in the West in a

region of maze-like valleys and end up

in the chaotic terrain near the crazy

planitia Basin it's like driving across

the entire United States

but let's get back to the vallus

marinara shall we it's so large that it

can be seen from Earth through a

telescope it looks like a dark scar on

the planet's surface vallis marineris is

full of features that give us clues

about how it was formed there are

collapse pits created by Rushing Water

massive floods and seeping along Canyon

walls all of which suggest that water

was present at some point in Martian

history there are also cracks in the

crust Cliffs and walls and landslides

that have contributed to the formation

of this vast Canyon now scientists have

proposed various theories about how

valus marineris form some suggested that

erosion during a water-rich pass or the

withdrawal of subsurface magma were

early possibilities today most

scientists think that the formation of

the thoris region may have helped the

candy deform the tharus region contains

several large volcanoes that dwarf those

found on Earth including olymp

as the molten rock pushed through the

volcanic region to form the Monstrous

volcanoes 3.5 billion years ago the

crust heaved upward wouldn't you the

string cracked the crust causing large

faults and fractures across the planet's

surface such fractures growing over time

created the enormous canyon system

phallus marineris is not just a massive

Canyon it's also home to a handful of

its own volcanoes they may not be as big

as Olympus mods but they're still pretty

cool these volcanic cones are only 200

to 400 million years old which are just

kids compared to the bulk of Martian

volcanism that took place around 3.5

billion years ago finally if you get

sleepy thinking about all the Canyons

it's okay you can yawn.